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NetBSD Security Advisory 2006-020
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Topic: Integer overflows in PCF font parsers
Version: NetBSD-current: source prior to August 28, 2006
NetBSD 4.0_BETA: affected
NetBSD 3.1_RC2: not affected
NetBSD 3.0.*: affected
NetBSD 3.0: affected
NetBSD 2.1: affected
NetBSD 2.0.*: affected
NetBSD 2.0: affected
pkgsrc: xorg-libs-6.9.0nb6 and earlier
XFree86-libs-4.4.0nb7 and earlier
Severity: Denial of service and potential privilege escalation
Fixed: NetBSD-current: August 28, 2006
NetBSD-4 branch: August 29, 2006
(4.0 will include the fix)
NetBSD-3-0 branch: August 29, 2006
(3.0.2 will include the fix)
NetBSD-3 branch: August 29, 2006
(3.1 will include the fix)
NetBSD-2-1 branch: August 29, 2006
NetBSD-2-0 branch: August 29, 2006
NetBSD-2 branch: August 29, 2006
pkgsrc: xorg-libs-6.9.0nb7 corrects the issue
XFree86-libs-4.4.0nb8 corrects the issue
Abstract
========
There are integer overflows present in the PCF font parsers as supplied
with both XFree86 and X11R7.0. This can lead to a denial of service
attack and potentially arbitrary code execution. This vulnerability
can be triggered by a user parsing an untrusted PCF font file.
This vulnerability has been assigned CVE reference CVE-2006-3467.
Technical Details
=================
Integer overflows in the PCF font parsers can crash the X servers and
potentially lead to arbitrary code execution.
Solutions and Workarounds
=========================
While X11R7.0 from X.Org is in both the HEAD and netbsd-4 branches it
is currently not integrated fully into the base distribution. No NetBSD
releases contain X11R7.0 binaries and as such it is not necessary to
rebuild anything from source. The instructions below will patch the
relevant X11R7.0 source files so that if users are experimenting with
X11R7.0 it will contain the necessary security fixes.
XFree86-based X servers are included in the NetBSD base distribution,
and will need to be rebuilt. The following instructions describe how
to upgrade your XFree86 binaries by updating your source tree and
rebuilding and installing a new version of XFree86.
* NetBSD-current:
Systems running NetBSD-current dated from before 2006-08-28
should be upgraded to NetBSD-current dated 2006-08-29 or later.
The following files need to be updated from CVS HEAD:
xfree/xc/lib/font/bitmap/pcfread.c
xorg/lib/Xfont/src/bitmap/pcfread.c
To update from CVS, re-build, and re-install XFree86:
# cd xsrc
# cvs update xfree/xc/lib/font/bitmap/pcfread.c
# cvs update xorg/lib/Xfont/src/bitmap/pcfread.c
# make build
* NetBSD 3.*:
Systems running NetBSD 3.* sources dated from before
2006-08-29 should be upgraded from NetBSD 3.* sources dated
2006-08-30 or later.
The following files need to be updated from the
netbsd-3 or netbsd-3-0 CVS branch:
xfree/xc/lib/font/bitmap/pcfread.c
To update from CVS, re-build, and re-install XFree86:
# cd xsrc
# cvs update -r <branch_name> \
xfree/xc/lib/font/bitmap/pcfread.c
# make build
* NetBSD 2.*:
Systems running NetBSD 2.* sources dated from before
2006-08-29 should be upgraded from NetBSD 2.* sources dated
2006-08-30 or later.
The following files need to be updated from the
netbsd-2, netbsd-2-0 or netbsd-2-1 CVS branch:
xfree/xc/lib/font/bitmap/pcfread.c
To update from CVS, re-build, and re-install XFree86:
# cd xsrc
# cvs update -r <branch_name> \
xfree/xc/lib/font/bitmap/pcfread.c
# make build
Thanks To
=========
Chris Evans is credited with the discovery of the FreeType issue.
Werner Lemberg is credited with linking the FreeType issue to X PCF readers.
Revision History
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2006-09-21 Initial release
More Information
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Advisories may be updated as new information becomes available.
The most recent version of this advisory (PGP signed) can be found at
ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2006-020.txt.asc
Information about NetBSD and NetBSD security can be found at
http://www.NetBSD.org/ and http://www.NetBSD.org/Security/.
Copyright 2006, The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Redistribution permitted only in full, unmodified form.
$NetBSD: NetBSD-SA2006-020.txt,v 1.4 2006/09/21 13:33:13 adrianp Exp $
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